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Piano Sonata in C sharp minor 'Moonlight', Op 27 No 2
composer
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
No 14

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Recordings
'Beethoven: Piano Sonatas' (CDA67662)
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Steven Osborne (piano)
'Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3' (CDA67797)
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
Angela Hewitt (piano)
'Harold Bauer – The complete recordings' (APR7302)
Harold Bauer – The complete recordings
Harold Bauer (piano)
'Paderewski – His final recordings' (APR5636)
Paderewski – His final recordings
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)
'Bowen: The complete works for viola & piano' (CDA67651/2)
Bowen: The complete works for viola & piano
Lawrence Power (viola), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
Details
Movement 1: Adagio sostenuto
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)
Track 3 on APR5636 [5'31] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
Harold Bauer (piano)
Track 8 on APR7302 CD1 [4'53] 3CDs (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
arranger
York Bowen (1884-1961)
viola obbligato; 57 bars survive; remaining 20-odd completed and edited by Lawrence Power

Lawrence Power (viola), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
Track 6 on CDA67651/2 CD1 [5'40] 2CDs
Steven Osborne (piano)
Track 1 on CDA67662 [6'01] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Track 15 on CDA67797 [5'37] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
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Movement 2: Allegretto
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)
Track 4 on APR5636 [2'21] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
Harold Bauer (piano)
Track 9 on APR7302 CD1 [2'23] 3CDs (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
Steven Osborne (piano)
Track 2 on CDA67662 [1'59] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Track 16 on CDA67797 [2'05] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
Movement 3: Presto agitato
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)
Track 5 on APR5636 [6'15] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
Harold Bauer (piano)
Track 10 on APR7302 CD1 [4'52] 3CDs (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
Steven Osborne (piano)
Track 3 on CDA67662 [7'26] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Track 17 on CDA67797 [7'15] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)

Piano Sonata in C sharp minor 'Moonlight', Op 27 No 2
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It was a characteristic of Frederick Corder to encourage his pupils to write their own parts to duet with established classics. Thus Corder brought out a set of piano pieces that, on two pianos, could be accompanied by Czerny’s School of Velocity. York Bowen wrote a second piano part to accompany Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C minor. In similar vein he produced this viola obbligato for the first movement of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, though it is not possible to determine its date. It seems likely it was a student or pre-First World War piece. Only 57 bars of Bowen’s manuscript survive, and the last twenty-odd have been completed by Lawrence Power, following the example set by Bowen in the earlier part of the movement.

from notes by Lewis Foreman © 2008

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